Batman

well, the pros and managers in the country thought he was. the england manager thought he was in the top two english ones

its the downgrading of the players that left. Lallana is now 'over hyped'

not really. will reserve judgement as players from that league are very hit and miss Altidore scored a lot in that league, as did alfonso alves tadic looks good, but see above

saints are going down with loads of money in the bank, money in the bank...money in thebank

Reed did say that any bids for our best players will probably met with a 'NO'

check the videos online yourself. I remember him saying it. Im on my phone and cant be arsed providing links at your request

when we are selling anyone decent. our level of players has dropped, you have to agree players like forster, tadic, pelle etc are our marquee signings, just on fee alone tadic is up there

Les reed has said that there would be only 1 marque signing. That was tadic

liek osvaldo, ramirez, Forren?

just got to hope ALL the 8 or so new players will want to play for us after a few games

that is is. make that 9 players needed in one window I can only see us like-for-liking with the exception of a wide player and keeper

what do you think we need. assuming chambers and lovren are gone within the next week and morgan with jrod stay. me.... GK LB RB CB Wide Player ST Just cant see us getting that many. that would see us sign 8 players in one windown. Cant ever remember saints doing anything like that. Not since the heady days of mark hughes and stuart ripley. even that was 5 wasnt it?

I sense you a faltering

ours really isnt the nucleus of a side that could win the championship. we didnt when we had lallana and lambert in the side

5 players? we need more than that mate the deadline for a stable prem club should be to have the majority of your business done before the start of the season look how a good start set us up last season....gives you a bit of leeway when you have a wobble. where as, I dunno, losing your first 4 games puts massive pressure on the team and manager

5 weeks to build a team. brilliant considering we have scouts all around the world, watching players and managers all the time and have multiple enquiries on players most of the time, I am amazed we still have no even replaced the 3 that have left. 2 of which (shaw and lallana) we knew were going months ago. I really cannot believe we will have time in those 5 weeks to bring in the replacement for shaw, the replacement for morgan (face it, why stay) the replacement for chambers and Lovren PLUS the enhanced squad that reed said we were building on top of all that

3 weeks to build a team. brilliant

when we are spitting them out and they end end up costing far more than that. best get them whilst their prices are lower wont be long before they just get the next big thing from staplewood before they make their first team debuts. be even cheaper a big thing from saints academy at the mo is a pretty sure thing as young prospects go

wasnt he a bit of a flop here before?

that is their plan for him in years to come, apparently

Koeman last night said we were close to signing 'some' players. Seems we are to Celtic what Liverpool are to us as both Forster and Van Dijk were left out of their friendly last night

I said (or meant) in most cases....

I think they mean (when it comes to football clubs) is selling most players of high value, replacing them with FAR cheaper (which will mean in most cases, inferior) replacements and pocketing the rest that my take when football fans say "asset stripping'

well, it will become clearer if we dont invest significant amounts back into the first team in the next few weeks

our odds for relegation must be getting shorter with every player that leaves?